[Date Prev][Date Next] [Thread Prev][Thread Next] [Date Index] [Thread Index]

Re: /etc/init.d/networking does not start everything in /etc/network/interfaces



-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 02:16:32PM +0200, Elimar Riesebieter wrote:

[...]

> Ask your search engine: "init.d/networking restart is deprecated"

I don't know about yours, but *my* /etc/init.d/networking is alive
and healthy! More to the point, it's so useful to me that I'd rewrite
it, should it fall off Debian.

Instead of scaring off people by some strange warning picked out of
the huge echo chamber of the Intertubesi [1], how about doing some
real research and explain to people what's up?

/etc/init.d/networking will bring your system to its default state
(like after a reboot). Thus, the interfaces marked with "auto" in
/etc/network/interfaces will be up, all others, down.

Anything you changed manually since boot (e.g. by issuing an
explicit "sudo ifup eth0", same for an ifdown) will be gone.
This could be, depending on circumstances, somewhat unexpected,
unwanted, or totally intended.

In my opinion, a warning is in order ("this might not be doing
what you think it does"), but deprecated seems exaggerated to me.

regards

[1] Schocking Truth! Not everything seen on the Internet is true!

- -- tomás
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux)

iEYEARECAAYFAlc7F+cACgkQBcgs9XrR2kavhwCfUbMcBMxqWDreJl3ed+eEDi52
L20An2gnWomTxyx1UnfymXas5apMzZhA
=HOSL
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----


Reply to: